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External Awards APS Outstanding Referee AwardWinner: Yoshiharu Krockenberger, Basic Research Laboratories, NTT, Inc. Date: February 17, 2026 Organization: American Physical Society SECCON 14 Open Conference Best Presentation AwardWinner: Toshinori Usui, Social Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc. Date: March 1, 2026 Organization: SECCON For “Rage against the Virtual Machine: Leveraging Large Language Models as Weapons against Virtualization-obfuscated Malware.” Published as: T. Usui, “Rage against the Virtual Machine: Leveraging Large Language Models as Weapons against Virtualization-obfuscated Malware,” SECCON 14 Open Conference, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2026. IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research AwardWinner: Atsushi Ando, Human Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc. Date: March 6, 2026 Organization: Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) For “Speaking Style Captioning Using Speech Factor Conditioning.” Published as: A. Ando, T. Moriya, S. Horiguchi, and R. Masumura, “Speaking Style Captioning Using Speech Factor Conditioning,” IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, Vol. 2025-SLP-155, No. 79, Feb. 2025. Young Researcher’s AwardWinner: Kahoko Takahashi, Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT, Inc. Date: March 11, 2026 Organization: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) For “Transferring Data from Other Tasks in Throughput Prediction Model Training.” Published as: K. Takahashi, H. Nagata, T. Yamazaki, and T. Fujita, “Transferring Data from Other Tasks in Throughput Prediction Model Training,” IEICE General Conference 2025, B-15-18, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2025. Young Researcher’s AwardWinner: Yuka Okamoto, Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT, Inc. Date: March 11, 2026 Organization: IEICE For “Empirical Study of Congestion Control Utilizing Traffic Prediction for Low-delay Mobile Midhaul.” Published as: Y. Okamoto, H. Ujikawa, K. Miyamoto, T. Shimada, and T. Yoshida, “Empirical Study of Congestion Control Utilizing Traffic Prediction for Low-delay Mobile Midhaul,” IEICE General Conference 2025, B-8-16, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2025. |